Tradition 35 of 35
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Ancient and traditional religious systems, animist and polytheist belief, deities, sacred rites, mystery cults, and historical ritual practices that contextualize magical and esoteric traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 14,367
- Earliest
- 1100
- to 2026
- Read free
- 44%
- 6,362 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match4,877
- Metadata match260
- Query match9,225
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- God2.1K
- Animals1.9K
- Early works to 18001.8K
- Juvenile fiction907
- Rites and ceremonies891
- History810
- Juvenile literature779
- Providence and government of God752
- Sermons669
- Funeral rites and ceremonies624
- Conduct of life615
- Religion557
- Bible479
- Children471
- Animal welfare462
- Christianity424
- animal magnetism417
- Children's stories380
- Fiction360
- Christian life357
- Natural history339
- Attributes334
- Zoology321
- Cult314
Top languages
- English7,932 · 55%
- German1,498 · 10%
- French1,335 · 9%
- Latin1,255 · 9%
- Italian437 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Harrison Weir40 in this tradition46 books
- Religious Tract Society32 in this tradition66 books
- France. Convention nationale31 books
- Augustine of Hippo26 in this tradition46 books
- Madeline Leslie25 in this tradition26 books
- Samuel G. Goodrich24 in this tradition34 books
- Franz Anton Mesmer23 in this tradition49 books
- Catholic Church22 in this tradition50 books
- Maximillien De Lafayette22 in this tradition24 books
- Martin Luther21 in this tradition129 books
- François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon21 in this tradition49 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg20 in this tradition84 books
14,367 books
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Varuna und Mitra. Ein Beitrag zur Exegese des Veda
Alfred Hiilebrandt
1877German
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War-Gods of the Void
Henry Kuttner, Alexander Leydenfrost
Date unknown
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Where the Gods Decide
James McKimmey, Kelly Freas
Date unknown
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Whom the Gods Destroyed
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Date unknown
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Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe
Eugène Brieux, James Bernard Fagan, Bernard Miall, Charlotte Frances Shaw
Date unknown
- Read free
ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming;
Thomas Greenhill
Date unknown
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Anthousa; oder, Roms Alterhthümer. ein Buch für die Menscheit. Die heiligen Gebräuche der Römer
Karl Philipp Moritz
1791German
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Rollin's Complete Ancient History (1842)
Brother Elias
1842
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A classical manual, being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil
1833
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Britain's remembrancer
George Wither
1880
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Caroli Hannibalis Fabroti, ... Ad tit. cod. Theodosiani de paganis, sacrificiis, & templis, notae
Cramoisy, Sébastien, 1585-1669, publisher, Charles Annibal Fabrot, Officina Nivelliana
1618Latin
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Pārāśarīhorāpaddhati, 1792
Parāśara
1792Sanskrit
- Read free
Sarye chollyak
Asami Collection CUY, Korean Rare Book Collection CUY
1847Korean
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[Epikleseis theon], sive, De deorum cognominibus per grammaticorum Graecorum scripta dispersis [microform]
Georg Wentzel
1839Greek
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Die anfänge der cultur. Untersuchungen über die entwicklung der mythologie, philosophie, religion, kunst und sitte
Friedrich Wilhelm Paul Poske, Johann Wilhelm Spengel, Edward Edward Burnett Tylor
1873German
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Historisch-kritische Abhandlung über die phönicischen Mysterien
Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature, Karl Josef Michaeler
1796German
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[Peri Pherekydou tou Syriou kai tes Theogonias autou] [microform]
Damaskenos Speliotopoulos
1890Greek
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A Manual of Ancient History (1871) George Rawlinson
Brother Elias
1871
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Close-up of ornamental statuary depicting animals and deities along the steps ascending up the Pyramid of the Sun at the Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)
Mary Binney Wheeler
1982
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Cornel. Taciti sententiae de natura, indole ac regimine deorum [microform]
Anton Kahlert
1844Latin
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Das Eingreifen der Götter in die Handlung der Ilias [microform]
Robert Lindner
1882German
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De l'origine des cultes arcadiens; essai de méthode en mythologie grecque
Bérard, Victor
1894French
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De maioribus Germanorum diis [microform]
Karl Tücking
1871Latin
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De rebus sacris et artibus veterum Tarentinorum [microform]
Rudolph Lorentz
1836Latin